ArticleEuropean journal of nutrition2023
Early life exposures are associated with appetitive traits in infancy: findings from the BiTwin cohort.
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- The Regulation of Energy Intake in Infancy: A Narrative Review.Current obesity reports · 2025Review
- Exploring Partners' Part in Shaping the Home Food Environment During the Transition to Fatherhood.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Nutritional Nesting (Nestrition): Shaping the Home Food Environment in the First Pregnancy.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Feeding-Related Early Signs of Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Narrative Review.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Review
- Early life exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke and eating behaviors at age 12 years.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2024Article
- Developmental trajectory of appetitive traits and their bidirectional relations with body mass index from infancy to early childhood.Clinical obesity · 2024Article
- Developmental trajectories of eating behaviors and cross-lagged associations with weight across infancy.Appetite · 2023Article
- Associations of parent feeding behaviors and early life food exposures with early childhood appetitive traits in an observational cohort study.Physiology & behavior · 2023Observational
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purposeTo determine the stability of appetitive traits during infancy and their association with early life exposures.
methodsParticipants were from the BiTwin birth cohort (longitudinal study of Portuguese infants). Appetitive traits at 3 months were measured using the Baby Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (n = 347) and at 12 months with the Children's Eating Behaviour Questionnaire for toddlers (n = 325). Stability was assessed with multi-level models. The association of early life exposures (weight for gestational age, mode of feeding, prematurity, smoking during pregnancy, maternal pre-pregnancy BMI, gestational weight gain, and diabetes mellitus diagnosis) with infant appetitive traits was estimated by multivariable linear regression models.
resultsAppetite traits showed limited stability (ICCs: 0.25-0.34). Associations with early life exposures varied by age. At 3 months, infants of mothers with higher pre-pregnancy BMI and excessive gestational weight gain had low Satiety Responsiveness. In contrast, infants small for gestational age scored high in this trait (β̂ = 0.241; 95% CI 0.056-0.425). Exclusively formula-fed infants presented weak food approach traits at this age, namely low Enjoyment of Food (β̂ = - 0.145; 95% CI - 0.270 to - 0.019) and Food Responsiveness (β̂ = - 0.415; 95% CI - 0.618 to - 0.212). At 12 months, infants who were small for gestational age had low Food Responsiveness (β̂ = - 0.297; 95% CI - 0.523 to - 0.072), in contrast, infants of mothers who gained excessive gestational weight had high scores in this trait. Formula feeding was related to rapid eating (Slowness in Eating: β̂ = - 0.252; 95% CI 0.451 to - 0.054).
conclusionEarly life exposures may play a role in the development of infants' appetitive traits, which then change during the first year of life. Interventions focussed on maternal and infant health may have the potential to shape appetite in infancy.
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